Tint: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 09:29, 16 May 2014

tint is a small curses-based game.

We have ported this game to libpayload so it can now be used as a coreboot payload.

Building

tint

First, get tint itself and patch it:

$ git clone http://review.coreboot.org/p/coreboot.git
$ cd coreboot/payloads/external/tint
$ wget http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian-archive/20110127T084257Z/debian/pool/main/t/tint/tint_0.03b.tar.gz
$ tar xfvz tint_0.03b.tar.gz
$ cd tint-0.03b
$ patch -p1 < ../libpayload_tint.patch

Then, build libpayload:

$ cd ../../../libpayload
$ make menuconfig

Under Standard Libraries choose Tinycurses instead of the default PDCurses as the Curses implementation as building Tint fails with the PDCurses implementation. Then exit the Kconfig menu and say Yes to saving the config.

$ make
$ make install

The libpayload directory has to be in the tint-0.03b directory:

$ cd ../external/tint/tint-0.03b
$ ln -s ../../../libpayload/install/libpayload libpayloadbin

Finally, build tint itself:

$ cd ..
$ make

The ELF file tint is your final payload which you can use with coreboot, either on real hardware or in a QEMU image.

coreboot

Finally, you have to build coreboot with tint as payload:

$ cd ../../../..
$ cp ../tint/tint-0.03b/tint payload.elf
$ make menuconfig

Now enter the Payload menu and select Payload type and then An ELF executable payload file. Then, exit the menu, save your settings, and build coreboot:

$ make

The file build/coreboot.rom is your final coreboot image, which also contains the tint payload.

Running tint in QEMU

For running the coreboot+libpayload+tint image in QEMU, you need a patched version of vgabios-cirrus.bin in your build directory first, and you also need to rename or copy coreboot.rom to bios.bin:

$ cd build
$ mv coreboot.rom bios.bin
$ wget http://www.coreboot.org/images/0/0d/Vgabios-cirrus.zip
$ unzip Vgabios-cirrus.zip
$ cd ..

You can now run tint in QEMU:

$ qemu -L build -hda /dev/zero -serial stdio

Ready-made QEMU image

Please follow QEMU#coreboot_v3_.2B_libpayload_.2B_tint these instructions if you want to try out coreboot and tint in QEMU.

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 == Building  ==
-=== libpayload ===
+=== tint ===
+First, get tint itself and patch it:
+ $ git clone http://review.coreboot.org/p/coreboot.git
+ $ cd coreboot/payloads/external/tint
+ $ wget http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian-archive/20110127T084257Z/debian/pool/main/t/tint/tint_0.03b.tar.gz
+ $ tar xfvz tint_0.03b.tar.gz
+ $ cd tint-0.03b
+ $ patch -p1 < ../libpayload_tint.patch
-The tint payload uses [[libpayload]], thus you need to get that first and build it:
+Then, build [[libpayload]]:
- $ mkdir foo
+  $ cd ../../../libpayload
-  $ cd foo
- $ svn co svn://coreboot.org/coreboot/trunk/payloads/libpayload
- $ cd libpayload
   $ make menuconfig
+Under ''Standard Libraries'' choose Tinycurses instead of the default PDCurses as the Curses implementation as building Tint fails with the PDCurses implementation. Then exit the Kconfig menu and say ''Yes'' to saving the config.
   $ make
+ $ make install
-=== tint ===
+The '''libpayload''' directory has to be in the '''tint-0.03b''' directory:
+ $ cd ../external/tint/tint-0.03b
+ $ ln -s ../../../libpayload/install/libpayload libpayloadbin
-You can then get tint itself, patch it, and build it:
+Finally, build tint itself:
   $ cd ..
- $ wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/tint/tint_0.03b.tar.gz
- $ tar xfvz tint_0.03b.tar.gz
- $ cd tint-0.03b
- $ svn export svn://coreboot.org/repos/trunk/payloads/external/tint/libpayload_tint.patch
- $ patch -p1 < libpayload_tint.patch
   $ make
-The file '''tint.elf''' is your final payload which you can use with coreboot (v2 or v3), either on real hardware or in a QEMU image.
+The ELF file '''tint''' is your final payload which you can use with coreboot, either on real hardware or in a [[QEMU]] image.
 === coreboot ===
-Finally, you have to build coreboot (v3 in this example) with tint as payload:
+Finally, you have to build coreboot with tint as payload:
-  $ cd ..
+  $ cd ../../../..
- $ svn co svn://coreboot.org/repository/coreboot-v3
+  $ cp ../tint/tint-0.03b/tint payload.elf
-  $ cp tint-0.03b/tint.elf coreboot-v3/payload.elf
- $ cd coreboot-v3
   $ make menuconfig
-Now enter the '''Payload''' menu and select '''Payload type''' and then '''An ELF executable payload file'''. Now exit the menu, save your settings, and build coreboot:
+Now enter the '''Payload''' menu and select '''Payload type''' and then '''An ELF executable payload file'''. Then, exit the menu, save your settings, and build coreboot:
   $ make
-The file '''build/coreboot.rom''' (or '''build/bios.bin''') is your final coreboot v3 image, which also contains the tint payload.
+The file '''build/coreboot.rom''' is your final coreboot image, which also contains the tint payload.
 == Running tint in QEMU ==
-For running the coreboot+libpayload+tint image in QEMU, you need a patched version of '''vgabios-cirrus.bin''' in your '''build''' directory first:
+For running the coreboot+libpayload+tint image in [[QEMU]], you need a patched version of '''vgabios-cirrus.bin''' in your '''build''' directory first, and you also need to rename or copy '''coreboot.rom''' to '''bios.bin''':
   $ cd build
+ $ mv coreboot.rom bios.bin
   $ wget http://www.coreboot.org/images/0/0d/Vgabios-cirrus.zip
   $ unzip Vgabios-cirrus.zip
   $ cd ..
-You can now run tint in QEMU:
+You can now run tint in [[QEMU]]:
   $ qemu -L build -hda /dev/zero -serial stdio
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 == Ready-made QEMU image ==
-Please follow [http://www.coreboot.org/QEMU#coreboot_v3_.2B_libpayload_.2B_tint these instructions] if you want to try out coreboot and tint in [[QEMU]].
+Please follow [[QEMU#coreboot_v3_.2B_libpayload_.2B_tint these instructions]] if you want to try out coreboot and tint in [[QEMU]].
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